NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Hannes Kaufmann; Bernd Meyer – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2009
We present an immersive virtual reality (VR) application for physics education. It utilizes a recent physics engine developed for the PC gaming market to simulate physical experiments correctly and accurately. Students are enabled to actively build their own experiments and study them. A variety of tools are provided to analyze forces, mass, paths…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Simulated Environment, Computer Simulation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Frontera, Eloi Biosca – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2009
This article is a summary and conclusions of a field study carried out in a secondary education classroom with the aim of experimenting and observing how 13-year-old students learn the history of architecture by using complex virtual reality software. Within the framework of autonomous and active learning, students act as builders of some of the…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment